Covid 19-related CEU Senate Decisions, Policies and Communications
Dear All, please look to these documents related to COVID 19 communications and decisions by CEU if need be.
SPP is here to support our faculty, staff, students and alumni. OneCEU site has a collection of Rector updates for the community, along with separate communications from the Provost, Dean of Students, on issues such as working from home, guidance to supervisors re work obligations of parents. CEU document repository is where you can find COVID 19 academic decisions, such as grading and extensions, the PhD measures, and cost reimbursement for academics.
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During his keynote address at the EPCS Annual Meeting, Jean-Robert Tyran discussed selected laboratory experiments to demonstrate that social preferences and limited rationality are important to understanding voting behavior. He urged especially young scholars to explore the “exciting field” of behavioral economics. |
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SPP Associate Professor of Practice Kirsten Roberts Lyer recently co-organized Day of Crisis, a 24-hour event during which teams of law students compete against each other to deal with a series of major international crises. The competition took place at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and was co-organized with Associate Professor in Public International Law Philippa Webb. |
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Second-year MPA students Sebastian Soto and Aron Suba recently returned from an extended trip to India where they conducted fieldwork for their Applied Policy Project (APP), a nine-month capstone project in which teams of students work for an external client on a defined project. “The trip to India was an extraordinary opportunity,” remembers Soto, “and also invaluable in terms of the data we were able to collect for our project,” adds Suba. |
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Catherine De Vries opened her keynote lecture at the EPCS Annual Meeting by noting that 6 out of 7.4 billion people lived in a country with a serious corruption problem in 2015. When asked, people say that they are concerned about corruption. Conventional wisdom suggests that elections curb corruption because these same people will vote against corrupt candidates. There is evidence, however, that voters tolerate – even condone – corruption when it is practiced by candidates with whom they share a group identity. |
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“As a student and a woman from a country (Zimbabwe) and continent with significant levels of inequality, I am very familiar with the pervasiveness of gender imbalance – and the devastating consequences it has especially on women,” says second-year MPA student Sikhathele Nkala. Like most countries in Africa, Zimbabwe has adopted progressive legislation in recent years to address these gender imbalances. Despite this, Nkala says that the day-to-day experiences of women demonstrate that gender inequality and exclusion of women’s concerns and priorities in policy making is pervasive. |
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